Stock-waterer



UNITED STATES PATENT I, OEEICE.

' WILLIAM A. CONNELL, 0F ATKINSON, ILLINOIS.

STOCK-WATERER.

SPECIFICATION .forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,827, dated January17, 1899.

Y Application iiled July 11, 1898. Serial No. 685,621. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. CoNNnLL, a citizen of the United Stat-es,residing at Atkinson, in the county of Henry and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Stock-lVaterer, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to limprovements in stock-waterers.

The object of the present invention is to improve theconstruction ofstock-Waterers and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive onecapable of automatically controling the supply of water to thedrinking-trough and adapted to prevent the water from freezing in coldweather.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully-described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

. view of a stock-waterer constructed in accordance with this invention.Fig. 2 is a plan vi'e'w, the hinged top being removed. Fig. 3 is avertical sectional ,View A Y Like' numerals of reference designate correspondiu g parts in all the figures of the drawings. I

' l designates a Acasing rectangular in crosssection, constructed ofsuitable material, and provided at one end with a hinged door 2, whichaiiords access to the interior of the casing. The casing, which isprovidedwith a hinged top or cover 3, has a wateringtrough 4 and afloat-compartment 5 at its upper portion, the hinged top or lid beingprovided over the drinking-trough With an opening 6 to enable stock toobtain the Water.

The drinking-trough 4 and the float-compartment 5, which 4are preferablyof equal area, terminate short ofthe back of the casing, as clearlyillustrated in the drawings, to providea space 7 to facilitate theremoval of the heating device 8 from the casing and to enable it to bereadily placed therein.' The heating device 8 preferably consists of alamp, and it is located beneath the water-trough, which is constructedof sheet metal or similar material, and the said 'heating device enablesthe water in the trough to be mainwhich is operated by means of In thedrawings, Figure 1' is a perspective tained at a .suflicienttempera-ture to prevent freezing. The lamp need be used only inintensely cold weather, when the water iu the drinking-trough is liableto freeze.

The door 2 at the end vided with a suitable latch 9, which engages akeeper 10 of the casing, and the top or lid 3, which is hinged at theback of the casing at ll, is Secured at the frontby means of a nut l2and a threaded stem 13, mounted on the adjacent wallof thedrinking-trough and the loatfcompartment and extedin g through aperforation of the top Wateris admitted tothe iloat-co'mpartment througha supply-pipe 14, extending horizontally through the rear wall of thecasing and the rear wall of the fioat-compartment and havinga dependinginner end 415. The supply of-Water -is automatically eut 0E by means ofa valve 16, carried by a lever 17,

One end of the leveris fulcrumed end is hinged to the lower face of thefloat at 19. ing-trough 4 com-municate through perforations 20 in thedivision-wall 21, and when the Water rises in the iloat-eoinpartment itcar'- ries the iloat with it and automatically shuts 'off the supply byclosing the valve when the water-rises to the desired height; Instead ofa -ioat V153,. on the rear Vwall of the float-compartment and its otherThe float-compartment 5 and the drnkextending the supply-pipe throughthe back of the casing iimay, as illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 3of the accompanying drawings,

'Ihis latter construction is preferable when water is carried aconsiderable distance from the source of supply and it is desired tolocate the supply-pipe below the surface of the ground to preventfreezing.`

The invention has the following advan tages: rlhe stock-waterer, whichis simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, is adapted toprevent water fromfreezing in extremely cold weather, and it affordsready access to the heating apparatus. Cona venient access is affordedto the Water-trough and the supply of wateris automatically con-ytrolled to prevent Waste of water and' insure a constant supply.

.85 pass upward through the bottom of the casing.

Changes in the form, proportion, and minor` I Y drinking-trough arrangedwithin the casing beneath the opening of the top or cover andterminating short of the back of the casing to provide a space tofacilitate the introduc .tion and removal of ,the heating device, and.means for controlling the supply of water, substantially as described.

2. A stock-waterer comprising a casing, the' top 3 hinged to the casingat the back thereof and provided at the front of the casing with anopening, a drinking-trough arranged within the casing beneath theopening of the top, a float-compartment mounted adjacent to thedrinking-trough, said drinking-trough and float-compartment terminatingshort of the back of the casing to provide a space for facilitating theintroduction and removal of the heating device, and a supply-pipe,substantially as described.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aliiXedmy signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLiAM A.' CONNELL.

, Witnesses:

Gno. I3. HOFF, A CHAS. WERKHEISER.

